"Obedience to traditional authority:" A heritable factor underlying authoritarianism, conservatism and religiousness

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 375-380

  Ludeke, Steven ^a   Johnson, Wendy ^b   Bouchard Jr , Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Authoritarianism; Genetics; Traditionalism; Twin study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878203101     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.018     Document Type: Article

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